Have I chased you people away with my n00bish behavior? Or is it just because I called you people monkeys? If I offended anyone by doing so than I really do apologize. And oh yes: I DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT OWN NARUTO.

Here to Stay

Chapter Three: Gypsy Grudges

P.S. I'm staying in Konoha.

Those four words echoed through Neji's mind over and over again. What in the world is going on? Ok so Tenten wasn't dead but why?

You probably have many questions on why I was supposedly 'dead' for two years and now I am miraculously alive again. Sorry but I can't answer your questions at the moment.

The rest of the letter slowly came back to him. Is this the real thing? Or is it just a practical joke? Neji thought about this. What are the possibilities? He shook his head. I need some fresh air. When he walked out the doors he was hit with the smell of a dead, well, thing that was being roasted. Not that much fresh air but it will do. As he walked around Konoha he found out that the smell was all over the village and it STANK!

"H-h-hello N-n-neji Kun." Neji looked up and saw Hinata smiling shyly at him.

"Hello Hinata. WHAT IS THIS STINKIN SMELL?" Neji is half crazed by this odor so please excuse his rudeness.

Hinata now a bit scared that Neji had yelled at her decided it was best to reply. "W-well I think it's the g-gypsies. T-their back in town and you know they like eating odd things like s-skunks and all t-that."

"Where are they?" Neji asked as calmly as he could.

"W-why?"

"BECAUSE I'M GOING TO GET RID OF EITHER THE FOOD OR THE GYPSIES AND THEIR STINKIN FOOD!" And again please excuse his rudeness.

AT THE GYPSY CAMP

"What do you mean you won't stop roasting opossums?" Neji very angrily asked the fortune teller/ gypsy.

The gypsy like Hinata thought it was best to answer him. "First of all their not opossums, their ferrets and secondly we're not roasting them we're toasting them." The gypsy punctuated every few words with a spray of spit so Neji is covered in a lot of spit. "Also we're not the ones roasting them----" She turned and pointed at two very familiar figures, "They are."

Neji felt his eye twitch as he walked over to those two very familiar figures. I wonder who those two are… I honestly do. Neji thought to himself sarcastically. "WHY ARE YOU TWO ROASTING OPPOSSUMS?"

"Neji how wonderful of you to visit us!"

"Yes now we can eat these rodents together so our youth and friendship will blossom like a lotus!"

Three guesses on who those familiar figures are. And the first one doesn't count.

"Gai, Lee you have not answered my question. WHY ARE YOU ROASTING FERRETS?"

"Neji we are not roasting. " Lee piped up.

"We're toasting!" Gai corrected.

"DOES IT LOOK LIKE I CARE ON THE METHOD?"

"But we are!" Gai and Lee chorused together.

Deep breaths… deep breaths. Neji struggled to keep himself from pummeling the duo.

Now a hooded gypsy girl came out of one of the caravans, "Look could you guys shut up or else go jump off a cliff? Either way I'm getting some peace and quiet. And if you don't I'll be forced to cut your tongues out… at that will not be pleasant… trust me on that."

Gai and Lee hugged each other in fear. Neji just stared, "You'd actually cut our tongues out?"

"I've done it before and I can do it again." She turned to face Neji, "You're a Hyuga aren't you?"

"No I'm an Uchiha… of course I'm a Hyuga!"

"AYE! The only one who uses sarcasm in my presence is me, myself and I," She flicked Neji in the head, "Not you."

Gai has now as decided to defend his student. "Well isn't it obvious that he's a Hyuga? He has white eyes after all!"

"Yeah! That's right!" Lee decided to be 'manly' and gave the gypsy girl one of his giant smiles.

The gypsy girl just decided to ignore Lee, "You don't have to have white eyes to be a Hyuga." She took down the hood revealing long black hair with bleached blue tips and a pair of white eyes.

The three stared, Gai decide to yell out the thought they were all thinking, "OMG… YOU'RE A HYUGA! Right?"

"No not right. I'm not a Hyuga. Okay you want the truth?" When they all nodded she continued, "This isn't my real eye color…" She rubbed her eyes a few times turning her pupils a sharp gold, "I just like to fool around with my eye color. Now since you're a Hyuga you're going to deliver a message for me."

"Why would I do that?"

"BECAUSE I SAID SO!"

"Ok…" Neji agreed even though he felt a bit uneasy about her request.

"Tell Neji Hyuga that when I find him he is so dead."

"Umm… and who is this from?"

"Me."

"And who are you?"

"Ugh… Cynara Ibara."

"And why are you going to kill me?"

"Eight years ago…"

"Doesn't ring a bell."

"Eight years ago the gypsies came…"

"Uh… no?"

"Eight years ago the gypsies came and you…"

"Yes?"

"YOU ALMOST DROWNED ME BY DUMPING A BUCKET OF WATER ON ME!"

"Ohh…" The memory was slowly coming back to Neji. "But that was so long ago!" He wrinkled his forehead thinking about this. "How would you remember something that was so long ago?"

"Hyuga… gypsies can hold very, I repeat very long grudges."

"Um… ok?"

"Now go shoo off you three before I grow impatient of playing with you."

Gai and Lee 'shooed' off immediately not wanting to find out what Cynara would do when she grew impatient. Neji decided it was best to leave now since the ferret was off the fire.

Cynara yelled after them. "AND TAKE YOUR KIZEN FERRET WITH YOU!" She hurled the roasted, I mean 'toasted', ferret at them aiming at Lee. It hit a passing seagull. Now you know she not only can hold very long grudges but that also she has very bad aim.

"YOUR AIM IS WORSE THAN EVER CYNARA!" Was the hollered reply.

I'm sorry if you're angry with me for taking so long to write this chapter but I twisted my ankle and now it's swelling up to the size of a chicken head. Oh and one last note: I AM NOT EMO. -Shadoom